The "Monongahela" was built in 1927 and rebuilt in 1945-1946 when she was converted from coal to an oil burner. In the late 1950s she was partially dismantled. Her remains were sold to a South American firm. She broke away from her tug during...

She was built as the "Dolphin No. 3" at Jeffersonville, Indiana and was called the "Harry Anderson" for a brief period before receiving the name "Julius Fleischmann." She was owned by the Hatfield Coal Company and towed between the Kanawha River...

Nicknamed "The Little Train that Could," the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad has provided commuter and recreational transportation for the residents of Westchester Township since 1908. The original orange passenger cars were replaced...

Conductor John Slont stands proudly beside car 108 of the Valparaiso and Northern line of the Gary Inter-urban that connected Chesterton with LaPorte, Valparaiso, and Gary and was a one-time rival to the South Shore Railroad. Used for passengers,...

The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad built a wooden depot in Chesterton in 1852, just north of Third Street, south of the railroad tracks on land originally owned by the Thomas family. The railroad established a woodlot to the east of the...

William, son of early landowner William Thomas Sr., married Ann, eldest daughter of first settlers Jesse and Jane Morgan, in 1845. William ran a local saw mill and operated a store. In 1852 he platted the town of Calumet (later Chesterton) and...

A December 7, 1977 article from The Goshen News about a fire on the north shore that destroyed two homes (William Hurst and Mrs. George Hay cottages) and damaged another (Wiley Spurgeon’s). Later, another fire at the Kale Island home of Dr....

Two gentlemen participate in the leisure pastime of fishing. One gentleman, who appears to be Charles Porter, is poling the boat on the river. Because this photo is included with the group of photographs from Michigan, and because of presence of...

A side-wheel packet, the Major Anderson, is docked. There is one wooden ramp mid-ships, a small rowboat between her and the shore. Several groups of men stand together at the far right hand side of the picture.

A panorama image shows the city of Louisville in the background, the Ohio River across the middle and the dock and shoreline of Jeffersonville (Clark County, Indiana). At the left on the river, a packet steamboat sails east towards Cincinnati, both...

Several horse or mule drawn wagons are pulling loads up the 2nd Street Wharf embankment in the foreground of this photo. Below at the river, the ferry steamboat, Columbia offloads it's passengers. In the distance to the left can be seen the stacks...